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OpenAI launches deep research as an autonomous web-research agent

OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT, an agentic capability that independently searches, analyzes and synthesizes hundreds of web sources over five to thirty minutes for complex knowledge work.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM62confidence 97/100

Why it moved the index

The launch deployed a multi-step browsing agent that can operate independently for tens of minutes and produce professional research work, materially extending consequential digital autonomy and knowledge-work substitution. Its underlying o3 variant is not treated as an exact model checkpoint.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 62 · confidence 97

    New February 2025 autonomous-agent deployment with no durable canonical, title, fingerprint or substantially identical event collision.

    12 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI launches deep research as an autonomous web-research agent” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 62 and confidence 97 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “OpenAI launches deep research as an autonomous web-research agent” as follows: OpenAI launched deep research in ChatGPT, an agentic capability that independently searches, analyzes and synthesizes hundreds of web...

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